Mandi Gobindgarh railway station is located in

Fatehgarh Sahib district Fatehgarh Sahib district is one of the twenty-three districts of the state of Punjab, India, with its headquarters in the town of Fatehgarh Sahib. The district came into existence on 13April 1992, Baisakhi Day and derives its name from Sahib ...

in the Indian state of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

and serves the steel town of

Mandi Gobindgarh Mandi Gobindgarh is a town and municipal committee in Fatehgarh Sahib district in the state of Punjab in North India. It is also referred to as Steel City of Punjab or "Loha Mandi" due to its large number of steel factories. History According ...

The railway station

Mandi Gobindgarh railway station is at an elevation of and was assigned the code – GVG.

History

The

Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway The Scinde, Punjab, Delhi Railway was formed in 1870 from the incorporation of the Scinde Railway, Indus Steam Flotilla, Punjab Railway and Delhi Railway companies. This was covered by the ''Scinde Railway Company's Amalgamation Act'' of 1869 ...

completed the -long Amritsar–Ambala–Saharanpur–Ghaziabad line in 1870 connecting

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the List ...

(now in Pakistan) with Delhi.

Electrification

The Shahbad Markanda-Mandi Gobindgarh sector was electrified in 1995–96.

References

External links

Trains at Mandi Gobindgarh
Railway stations in Fatehgarh Sahib district Ambala railway division {{PunjabIN-railstation-stub